Week 14 - LAST week at Moroch!

Tuesday was another day of packaging and mailing. I sent Karate Kid passes and promotional items to the dojo place and the Oklahoma Homefront Association and sent Just Wright promotional items to Louie's On the Lake and McNellie's for the theme night that night. After that I learned how to work the GoFobo ticket scanner for Thursday when I scan tickets at the advance screening of Just Wright. I wrote a blog about the new Joaquin Phoenix documentary and filled out my internship evaluation. Later that evening I went to both McNellie's and Louie's where I set up all the promotional items and took pictures during the events. It was fun, especially at McNellie's because the manager was so nice.

Thursday was my last day at Moroch! It was kind of sad saying goodbye to Katie and leaving the building (Michelle, the other woman working with films at Moroch wasn't there when I left.) I edited and e-mailed Katie the pictures from the Just Wright nights at Louie's and McNellie's. I wrote a blog about Easy A. Movie news was a little slow today, but since the trailers just came out and it's a film Moroch is promoting already it worked out perfectly. Before I left for the day/semester I organized the storage room one more time and got a final count for Karate Kid items, posters and passes. Later that night I went to Harkins Theater in Bricktown with the GoFobo scanner in hand to work the advance screening for Just Wright. It went pretty good, and I got paid for it from GoFobo!

Week 13

Tuesday I worked on finalizing event details for McNellie's and Louie's by contacting the managers about menu details and brainstorming Just Wright theme names for items. I spent the rest of the day compiling a document listing all the schools in all the OKC & Tulsa school districts, along with their last day of school (which was surprisingly very different from school district to district.) Also surprising was the number of school districts and the much larger number of schools in each district, considering Oklahoma supposedly has a smaller population than a lot of states. I spent the rest of the day working on this document.

Thursday I continued finalizing event details for the two restaurants. I had the menus approved by each manager and sent to the Moroch graphic designers. I also contacted a dojo place and the Oklahoma Homefront Association about Karate Kid passes. I wrote a blog about Iron Man 2 and filled out W-9 information for a job I am doing the following week for Moroch & GoFobo (a screening pass company).

Friday I continued working with Louie's and McNellie's and tried to get something going with the Tulsa locations as well. I also compiled some information about Honda dealerships in the area. It was a short day because I had final papers and projects to work on.

Week 12

This week was the week of screening pass stuffing. On Tuesday I stuffed envelopes with Babies screening passes for various baby related stores and organizations, created postage for them with the postage machine and mailed them. On Thursday I stuffed passes in envelopes again, this time for the movie Just Wright screening. We mailed out around 300 passes for that movie...which is a lot of envelopes!

On Tuesday I called around to different bars to lock down more locations for Moroch's Just Wright promotion cocktail nights. For some reason it has been unusually hard finding interested locations for this movie. I left some messages to follow up with on Thursday. Thursday I was able to confirm the McNellie's in Oklahoma City and was talking to Louies about doing something.

I also blogged on Tuesday about Just Wright.

Friday I did research for three summer movies. For Easy A I researched country western events and contact information. I found a lot of things related to the OKC state fairgrounds, concerts and 4-H clubs. For an upcoming movie titled Burlesque starring Cher I looked up Gay Pride Month events. Apparently it is this June, so there was a lot of big events planned. I had a hard time with the last one - back to school events for a still untitled movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow. For OU I found information on Camp Crimson and Howdy Week, for example. I looked at all the schools in the OKC area for similar events and put it in a chart.

Week 11

Tuesday I packaged and mailed Babies passes to the businesses and organizations who responded positively to my e-mail request last week. I then wrote a blog about the film Kick-Ass (which was a pretty awesome movie, by the way). After blogging I settled into the familiar researching routine, this time for the movie Easy A, a movie inspired by The Scarlet Letter starring Emma Stone (and a lot of other recognizable names) about a girl who gets a reputation based on a lie and then uses those lies and others in her high school's "rumor mill" to get ahead. I researched activities during the summer that Moroch could be a part of to promote the movie to a teen or female college student audience. While I was researching, I also compiled Excel spreadsheets for the Karate Kid's OKC and Tulsa markets for after school places and martial arts places contact information.

I used this contact information Thursday to call every place on the list about receiving advance screening passes and promotional items for the Karate Kid. I took notes on their responses for when we look for promotional event hosting partners. Continuing the Karate Kid theme, I blogged about the movie. I then mailed the rest of the Babies passes out to any more responses I received since Tuesday. I also contacted a place called Cosmo's in Tulsa about hosting a cocktail night themed for Just Wright. Instead of driving back to Norman, I drove to Harkin's Theater in Bricktown where I handed out Babies posters and screening passes to movie-goers. My presence coincided with the 2:40 and 5:00 showtimes of the movie Oceans, since both films are expected to have a similar audience. I was there for a little over three hours, but I didn't really mind because it was one of the few paid gigs for my internship!

Friday I continued calling after school and martial arts places. There were about 25-30 places on each list for each OKC and Tulsa, so I had a lot of calls to make (including call-backs from Thursday's messages). I also did research and brainstorming for promotional events for the movie Grown-Ups starring Adam Sandler. This was a little different than my normal research and brainstorming. I wrote the complete report for the movie for Moroch to give to the studio so I had to follow a specific format and really make sure I had some good ideas!